"What these provocations should remind us is that power lies with the people. We have the power to strike, to shut things down and refuse to participate if the terms are not on the side of the people and the planet.
In the midst of a climate crises, rising fascist movements and deepening economic inequality, the challenges ahead of us are steep. But, as the words of artist El Zeft remind us, we also have a deep well of resolve and imagination to draw from.
Every movement and liberation practice within these provocations calls upon our own power to rupture and to act. They are a reminder — and a promise — that the people remember different ways and, perhaps more importantly, that the power of the people can, and will, build revolutionary futures."
https://roarmag.org/essays/provocations-covid19-global-south/
In the midst of a climate crises, rising fascist movements and deepening economic inequality, the challenges ahead of us are steep. But, as the words of artist El Zeft remind us, we also have a deep well of resolve and imagination to draw from.
Every movement and liberation practice within these provocations calls upon our own power to rupture and to act. They are a reminder — and a promise — that the people remember different ways and, perhaps more importantly, that the power of the people can, and will, build revolutionary futures."
https://roarmag.org/essays/provocations-covid19-global-south/
ROAR Magazine
Provocations to rupture and the power to act
Social movements from South Africa to Brazil have built economic systems rooted in cooperation, creativity and direct action as an antidote to the neoliberal order.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/marx-exploitation-abc-unequal-world/
openDemocracy
Marx on exploitation: an ABC for an unequal world
Exploitation begins with the terms on which workers sell their labour power to capital. Marx saw that 140 years ago, and it hasn’t changed since.
"Facebook knows that divisive and conspiratorial content drives engagement: A 2018 study by its own researchers found as much. But the platform’s executives buried the report, aware that doing anything to curtail engagement would threaten its massive growth rate and billion-dollar revenue streams. Another internal study found that 64 percent of those who joined an extremist group on the platform did so because Facebook’s algorithms recommended it to them."
https://newrepublic.com/article/160398/welcome-pandemic-cliff
https://newrepublic.com/article/160398/welcome-pandemic-cliff
The New Republic
Welcome to the Pandemic Cliff
The end of the year is a month away, and remaining relief programs are expiring. We are desperately unprepared for what waits on the other side.